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Honorable mention could be the one Nike feauturing Oscar Pistorius "I'm the bullet in the chamber" knowing he murdered his girlfriend by shotting her and that slogan 😮
Let’s all recognize that Subway had no way of knowing that Fogle is a flesh covered garbage pile. When the charges were revealed, they immediately cut ties with him.
The Nostalgia Critic did an entire countdown list of Cosby commercials that aged especially poorly. Surprised that not even one of them made this list.
Bruce Willis did a P.S.A where he said "anyone who offers you crack isn't your friend." Meanwhile he was doing paid ads for Capt. Morgan rum where the voice-over said "this is where the fun starts" - crack: bad, rum: good.
@@colleen4ever As I recall, yes they did. I mean, neither of us dropped *scads* of weight, but they did what they were supposed to do, which was suppress the appetite.
The original episode of Arthur were Mrs. McGrady had cancer was ruined by the Lance Armstrong thing. They had to recreate it with a made up celebrity for the guest star.
you'd be surprised how many people are touchy about CTE, as if anybody is forced to play a sport where 300-lb linebackers throw their entire body weight at your skull.
But, that's exactly the point of this video. Ads that were fun and topical at the time, but as we learned more as the years went by, they became more concerning. I, also, remember that I'm Batman ad and it was hilarious, but knowing what we know now, not quite as much. I feel the same with Kerry Strug, and her ankle injury. At the time, it seemed a triumph that she competed with it and won, but now? Problematic with the "anything for a win" attitude, no matter how it affects the persons life afterwards. (sure, she healed fine, but it could have been a life long limp issue for her)
@dhenderson1810 both of your comments are ridiculous and lack almost any evidence whatsoever. Yes, linebackers do take the risk, but that doesn't mean that CTE shouldn't be taken seriously. And about your second comment, its just plain stupid, you didn't provide anything to support your pathetic argument and just said what certain people, like you, say whenever they can't shout the N word or slap a women
Nope, love her, loved seeing her in this list, though I have no idea WHY she's on this list... I don't think I ever saw her ads, that certainly doesn't help. She does stand up comedy, she has this adorable vocal style that feeds into her comedy (as I recall, I haven't seen anything in a while). Like she SOUNDS innocent and naive, then makes racy jokes...
But it's the venom that did it. If it had stung him elsewhere, there's a chance he could've survived, but the venom going straight to his heart was basically instant death.
I remember our family doctor smoking in his office when I was a child. I always thought it smelled bad in there. And, a friend's husband took too many hits to the head as a college football player. He has CTE dementia and is mentally a three year old child now. Very, very sad. Shockingly, their grandson is on a high school football team! You would think his parents would have learned!
People can get dementia and have never played contact sport. So how do you explain that? Also, how do you know the dementia is directly linked to football, and not aging or an unrelated medical condition?
@@DaveYognaut No, but the only way to wipe out CTE is to get rid of contact sport altogether, and I don't want to see that. Fact is, players CHOOSE to do a sport where this is a big risk. So they accept the consequences. Don't like it, don't play.
Seriously? The Noid, the Snickers commercial? The Twin Towers commercial? Are we all children? Are advertisements supposed to have a Time Machine and be able to avoid future events? You’re reaching here, my dudes. Anyone traumatized by these things needs to seek mental help. My goodness.
Right? It’s not like many people even remember the ads. They are not still being played on TV or anything. The funny thing is, no one would ever see these ads if Ms. Mojo hadn’t put them in a video. If they think they are such a problem, maybe this video was a bad idea?
@@emtgirl777 Exactly. Just like racism. The more they talk about it(DEI), the longer it will persist. Videos like this are created by people who watch too much CNN & MSNBC.
Dishonorable Mention: * The Crying Indian Ad "Keep America Beautiful" - The ad was made by litter companies to shift the litter blame from them on to us.
what is a "litter company"? the whole "carbon footprint" thing was definitely a campaign by oil companies and other corporations to make us feel responsible for greenhouse emissions when they're the top polluters, but i'm not aware of any "litter companies" doing a whole lot of littering
@@ingridfong-daley5899 Companies who hypocritically litter their own trash and blames their customers for the problem, telling them to pick up their trash while they do the opposite.
ESPECIALLY Zoey 101 ads. There's a rumor out there that DAN'S the father of the child she got pregnant with while under aged, which ended the show. I have no idea how much truth there is in that rumor, but until I see the results of a DNA test... I wouldn't put it past him. Dan Schneider was a rotten bastard.
The biggest fail is depending on FedEx to deliver anything on time, ever. They've failed me more than I can tell, and it infuriates me when companies don't give me any other choice to have goods shipped. I mean I'd take ANY other choice.
Also to add to the Camel cigarettes, I vividly remember their mascot of an anthro camel being their mascot and his ads were practically everywhere, you couldn't escape him, billboards, magazines, etc. He finally vanished after enough soccer moms complained the mascot was appealing to children.
In truth, I loved the Noid ( mostly because at that time I knew a lot of, and seriously enjoyed "Claymation" )... but I also have to say I never heard about the guy that went nutburgers because of a passing resemblance with his name and the character. As for the Pole vaulter bit.. I never saw the commercial myself.. I think it's a "reach' personally... 5 YEARS afterwards?? come ON!
My grandparents had a Noid figure up on the wall in their kitchen. IIRC it was my grandmother who put it there, not my grandfather. It was completely out of place in their home and hilarious.
Walkers crisps in the UK (Lays chips in the US) did a "Walkers Wave" campaign asking users to send in selfies. The winners would score tickets to the UEFA Champions League final. So far so good, eh? Well the internet being what it is, people sent in pictures that were not selfies, and for whatever reason they were not properly screened and one of wrestler-who-should-not-be-named Chris Benoit slipped through and made it onto the promo video.
I’m so glad I never trusted Jared, saw him in Subway commercial at 6, always thought he was weird n suspicious. Till this day I can feel his shadow over a subway store.
Think of all the people named Ronald who never took McDonald's workers hostage because they thought the company's advertising character was about them.
One of the worst was the Geico commercial for motorcycle insurance that used a song by The Allman Brothers. They obviously knew nothing of the band's history, having lost 2 of its members in motorcycle wrecks.
You're not kidding! Commercials used to have some character and sort of a story-in-brief to them. My wife and I are both nostalgic for the '80's and back, and she often puts retro commercials on the TV just to play in the background while she does other things. I enjoy them as much as she does because nowadays commercial quality is just garbage.
I like Maria Bamford, but "regretting appearing in a commercial" should not appear on this list. Not even close to on the same level as the other examples on this list.
I think some context needs to be added about the smoking adds. You all threw in that part about the Flintstones promoting cigarettes and I know it’s because everyone thinks of the show as one for kids. However in its original run the show was actually for adults sort of like Family Guy. There are plenty of other examples that could’ve been used that were actually proven in court where cartoons were targeted to kids such as the Camel cartoon character but when the Flintstones became mote of a kids cartoon HB didn’t let them be used for that anymore.
Bamford does deserve to be knbthis list. Just because she regretted the exposure? It was a job she got paid for, created other opportunities. Bot the same as poorly agrd
The character she was playing said she had OCD. In fact, Maria had a form of OCD and bipolar 2. Her hard, crazed working helped lead to a serious mental breakdown.😢 The commercial kind of made fun of OCD and that wasn’t cool.
Number 9: Doctors promote cigarettes. Number 8: Lady regrets doing Target ads. Number 7: Deranged guy holds employees hostage because of an ad. One of these things is not like the other...
I wondered if "Ritalin" medication was another controversial thing and disturbing to take if it's a way to get better or suddenly change your ways, but I could be mistaken.
The cigarette adverts need looking at in context of the time they were aired. It was, and indeed is, a product that we can all agree can shorten people's life expectancy IF that person was going to live past 70 anyway. Which back in the 1950's and following couple of decades, was probably a bit less likely than it may now be. Barring of course developing lung cancer. (statistics show roughly a 20% chance of lung cancer in a heavy smoker. Pretty much a 20% increased chance than a non-smoker.) But again, context. If your life is so crap that dying young would actually be a release rather than a tragedy, then why not smoke a few ciggies on the way?
The life expectancy wasn't really any less in the 50s. However, they didn't know that smoking caused cancer or had any other ill effects until the 70s. It was at that point, that they began doing further studies. By the 80s, they began to put warnings on the product. I became a smoker as a teen in the 80s, not because Joe Camel looked like a cartoon character, but because it was still the "cool" thing to do among many of my peers. Peer pressure was the leading cause of teens smoking, not advertisements. Children paid no attention to that. They were still being raised by parents who smoked in the house (mine never smoked), and were surrounded by other smokers. Plus, they still had easy access to the product via the cigarette machines, and we didn't get carded when buying them 99.99% of the time when buying them. The majority of us actually smoked Marlboros or Newports. Occasionally Camels, if we got tired of the other brands. It was a flavor thing, not a brand thing. Cigarette tobacco does have a distinct flavor. We also didn't smoke because it tasted good. It was purely peer pressure and thinking we were not cool if we didn't do it. We had nothing against the nonsmokers, though.
@@jenx5870 Cigarette companies knew about the ill effects of their products earlier. They just did everything they could to hide or discredit the information to protect their market. When the truth started to come out, the moved their heavy promotion to developing companies where cigarette could still be marketed as cool.
Steve Irwin's death hit us fans hard. Funny thing, though, is that a video of #1 here on YT became an unofficial forum for fans to mourn and to reminisce about him.
Okay. Only certain people can say "I'm Batman": Michael Keaton Adam West Kevin Conroy Robert Pattinson Christian Bale Peter Weller And admittedly Val Kilmer and George Clooney.
Val would have made for a good Batman if Joel Schumacher made his Batman film like Flatliners (which looks more like Batman Begins than Batman Forever).
Frankly, I didn't even know that thing about The Noid, so I never associated it with anything but American Dominoes ads (we never got Noid ads here in Australia) and, it being so far back now, new information for me and Dominoes not being a huge priority in my life... I doubt I'll associate The Noid with the crime every time I see an ad online featuring The Noid
yes you missed i find the most shocking ad to ever hit australian tv and was shown any time during the day AIDS 'Grim Reaper' Ad Campaign (1987), this ad is about people with aids and shows adults and kids in a bowling alley as pins getting bowled over by grim reapers its actually terrifying and disturbing to watch
And it said that it will affect all of us, men, women and children. I remember when COVID first came, I wondered if it was overstated like AIDS was back in the 80s and would only affect certain groups, and not everyone.
I actually thought the funniest reference to the Domino's Noid was in the Simpsons when Marge brought up the long the forgotten mascot in a nerdy kind of way! Haha!
4:25 We can replace the Noid with Karens, the way they think delivery drivers are trespassing in the neighborhood, even if the neighborhood isn't gated. Even if it is, they have permission from the person who called the pizza store. Although, maybe it will lead to a less severe situation, like Karens protesting and saying hilariously dumb things. 5:37 That line in this commercial has such a different feel to it, too, especially from this part, 5:40, up to screaming.
Speaking of stupid commercials, I remember there was an old ad for cigarettes, it was a black & white ad from the early 60's It showed two young people dancing at a party and when the music ends the woman says"Let's go out for a breath of FREASH air , and then they both head out to SMOKE a KOOL cigarette,so much for FREASH air
Rolf Harris did a learn to swim ad, and there's a dark moment after telling an incident from his childhood he looks coldly to camera and says, "But some children aren't so lucky…"
Sarah Ferguson did promos for Weight Watchers. One mailer my mom got was her saying that losing weight was harder than evading the paparazzi. (She was princess Di's good friend).
It's amazing to see how WatchMojo has evolved over the years! From chasing views to creating quality, engaging content, you guys have come a long way. This list was both fascinating and disturbing - it's crazy how our perspectives change over time. Keep up the good work, WatchMojo!
Maybe not worthy of the list, but an old 80s commercial for Cabbage Patch Kids that I can't seem to find on RUclips. An 8 or 9 year old girl announces she has adopted a child, and then says "Well, I wanted to have my family when I was still young." and the surrounding 15 or 20 adults just smile and laugh. Way to reduce the rate of teen pregnancies.
My father in law died from taking NSAIDS. His doctor had told him to take an opioid pain reliever but he was afraid of them. He should’ve listened to his doctor. Over the counter does not mean safe.
I'm sorry that happened to him, and I'm sorry your family had to endure that. I'll ask as respectfully curious: what effect did the NSAIDS cause? Though I'm not in the "danger" group of 65 and older, I do take them for inflammation issues, and I always wonder about what could happen.
@@k.b.tidwell I take them as well. But it’s important to recognize the danger of over-use. His kidneys failed. He had been told not to take them because his kidney numbers were starting to go up. But he was afraid to take anything else. After his kidneys failed I guess he figured, oh well guess I can take them now. He ended up in the ER with a gastric bleed. They did emergency surgery and I was there when the surgeon saw him after recovery. He told my FIL, “do not take any over the counter pain medications”. My FIL said, “ what am I supposed to take for my pain??” He replied, “something that won’t kill you!” Even so he never made it home after that.
My gran and I were discussing old cigarette ads recently. I might not’ve said the name camels specifically (but I think I did). Anyhow, I told her about the “More Doctors Smoke Camels than any Other Cigarette” ad thing. I said, “Shameful, isn’t it?”
also i could see the guy being bothered that the tagline gave people an opportunity to bully him as an unfortunate coincidence, but thinking they were targeting him specifically seems like unmedicated schizophrenia.
@@dietotaku He did suffer from paranoid schizophrenia. Besides even if he was medicated it still is possible to show symptoms so I don't it really matter if it is medicated or not. Anyways he was arrested but was didn't face charges due to insanity. Sadly, he ended up taking his own life which was the final nail in the coffin for The Noid. The other nail was that Dominos ended up stopping the 30 minutes or less policy due to drivers getting into accidents with some of them dying. Guru Larry did a Fact Hunt episode that talked about mascots that had to be dropped.
The Radioshack commercial with Weird Al Yankovic singing "Toyland" is hard to watch, considering how bad they had fallen and were about to go out of business. 😢
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Honorable mention could be the one Nike feauturing Oscar Pistorius "I'm the bullet in the chamber" knowing he murdered his girlfriend by shotting her and that slogan 😮
Let’s all recognize that Subway had no way of knowing that Fogle is a flesh covered garbage pile. When the charges were revealed, they immediately cut ties with him.
What about The Poorly Aged OJ Simpson Commercials (Hertz and Pioneer Chicken).
You should bring up JOE CAMEL ads directed at kids.
How could you possibly forget about the many ads with Bil Cosby?
O.J. Simpson pitching "blade close" for Shick Razors. I guess you missed that one.
Must not have made it into the video(s) they got these from
Wow, you might be older than me. I forgot all about those.
Steve Irwin bought me here.
Same
How much did he pay you?
Me too
@@GoogleAccount-jr3iqit wouldn't be a lot
R. I.P. STEVE IRWIN 🙏🙌
Cosby for Jello Pudding Pops.
Cosby for ANYTHING.
The Nostalgia Critic did an entire countdown list of Cosby commercials that aged especially poorly. Surprised that not even one of them made this list.
I agree Cosby for Anything, but would you accept an open can of Coca-Cola from him and chug it down?
@@arealconservative8712 especially the "We're gonna get ya" ad
“Abra Abra Kadabra.
Cosby will reach out and grab ya!”
The target one really wasn’t that bad. I don’t understand how that’s controversial. She just regretted doing them. That’s it
I agree. I also don't think she regretted the exposure that may have benefited her career or the money the commercials paid.
@@happy_fecker are you a guy or a girl and did you even watch what they said? They said she ended up regretting it. Watch it again.
Personally Oj Simpsons chicken ads should have been there instead
Yeah I thought it was gonna turn out that Maria Bamford went on a shooting spree because of it or something.
Yeah, these picks were kind of weird...
The Snickers Batman commercial is still hilarious.
CTE will happen while sports exist.
Do doctors want to ban sport?
Given that heroin is an opioid, it should not have been such a big surprise that opioids are addictive.
Sure, but people weren't really talking about them as "opiods" back then. Doctors should certainly have known better though
They were still testing it and they knew it medicinal benefits…. So 🤷🏾♂️ ppl just abused ot
Would he have been prescribed it to fight cancer?
@@dhenderson1810 Pain, for the pain. Why fentanyl was created.
There is a anti drug psa from the 80s where every celebrity in ended up having drug problem.
Bruce Willis did a P.S.A where he said "anyone who offers you crack isn't your friend."
Meanwhile he was doing paid ads for Capt. Morgan rum where the voice-over said "this is where the fun starts" - crack: bad, rum: good.
That may very well be true, but... Have you got a RUclips link? I'd love to see the footage!
@guiltybastard7859 well rum is in hindsight way better than Crack.
@@Spiralredd and weed is way better than fent
It would be harder finding a celebrity who doesn't have a drug problem.
Shouldn't Fred and Barney be smoking a Winstone instead
They should just stick to vitamins
Cute!
@@emmayoung736 : Or cereal.
Ba da bing !!
I would add the Ayds Diet Candy commercials to the list.
Oh gads yes, I remember my mom and I both using those!
@@HayBea Did they work?
“Lose weight with Ayds.”
@@colleen4ever As I recall, yes they did. I mean, neither of us dropped *scads* of weight, but they did what they were supposed to do, which was suppress the appetite.
The original episode of Arthur were Mrs. McGrady had cancer was ruined by the Lance Armstrong thing. They had to recreate it with a made up celebrity for the guest star.
I don't think very many people see the hilarious Batman commercial and thinks "Oh, no! Head injuries are bad." -- that's not the point.
you'd be surprised how many people are touchy about CTE, as if anybody is forced to play a sport where 300-lb linebackers throw their entire body weight at your skull.
But, that's exactly the point of this video. Ads that were fun and topical at the time, but as we learned more as the years went by, they became more concerning. I, also, remember that I'm Batman ad and it was hilarious, but knowing what we know now, not quite as much. I feel the same with Kerry Strug, and her ankle injury. At the time, it seemed a triumph that she competed with it and won, but now? Problematic with the "anything for a win" attitude, no matter how it affects the persons life afterwards. (sure, she healed fine, but it could have been a life long limp issue for her)
@@dietotakuBut that is what the linebacker signed up for.
Don't want CTE, work in an office.
@@TallCFarmsNo wonder society has gone soft.
@dhenderson1810 both of your comments are ridiculous and lack almost any evidence whatsoever. Yes, linebackers do take the risk, but that doesn't mean that CTE shouldn't be taken seriously. And about your second comment, its just plain stupid, you didn't provide anything to support your pathetic argument and just said what certain people, like you, say whenever they can't shout the N word or slap a women
Anyone else wondering who the eff Maria Bamford is?
She is a brilliant comedian.
She's Samphia Drangus from Chunk it Out with Stangus Brule.
She was the Voice of Mrs. Beaty in the Movie, "Barnyard" (2006).
I had no idea who she was i paused the video when she came up 😂 to Google her expecting something crazy or tragic and nothing
Nope, love her, loved seeing her in this list, though I have no idea WHY she's on this list... I don't think I ever saw her ads, that certainly doesn't help. She does stand up comedy, she has this adorable vocal style that feeds into her comedy (as I recall, I haven't seen anything in a while). Like she SOUNDS innocent and naive, then makes racy jokes...
Pete Rose did one for Pizza Hut, I believe, and in the commercial, a kid asks him if he likes the pizza. Pete replied "You bet!"
I remember that 😮 Memory Unlocked 🔓
Let’s give a little shout out to Cuba Goodings little brother Omar Gooding in the bubble gum commercial 😊2:35
Thank you - was wondering who that was, seeing as how the voice-over during that stretch only mentioned DiCaprio selling bubble gum.
The stingray that ended Steve Irwin, while venomous, didn't kill him with venom. It killed him by stabbing him in the heart.
But it's the venom that did it. If it had stung him elsewhere, there's a chance he could've survived, but the venom going straight to his heart was basically instant death.
@@AprilDecember If you are stabbed in the heart you are dead. There is no chance of survival.
Might have been nice to give Omar Gooding a shout since yall had him up there for like 5 or 6 seconds
10:08 is sad......
RIP Steve Irwin. 😢
It's sad that the stingray isn't in the ad yet.
OJ Simpson in the Hertz Rent-A-Car ads
"Go ,O.J., go!" Same thing people were yelling when he was fleeing in the Bronco.
Rest In Peace
Steve Erwin
George Carlin had a great take on sex in ads, especially cigarettes, “I’d walk a mile for a camel… what are they doing with those cigarettes?!”😂
I actually just laughed hearing that because they'd be coughing up a lung walking that mile 😅
I can’t believe they made us wait till the very end to see the Steve Irwin ones! 😢
Thanks for the heads up. Forgot what channel I clicked on.
I remember our family doctor smoking in his office when I was a child. I always thought it smelled bad in there. And, a friend's husband took too many hits to the head as a college football player. He has CTE dementia and is mentally a three year old child now. Very, very sad. Shockingly, their grandson is on a high school football team! You would think his parents would have learned!
You can't be diagnosed with cte until the person is passed away
@@k.tmoney9915 Well, it is assumed that is what caused his dementia that started in his 40s.
People can get dementia and have never played contact sport. So how do you explain that?
Also, how do you know the dementia is directly linked to football, and not aging or an unrelated medical condition?
@@dhenderson1810 did their comment hit personal for you, or something? what's going on here?
@@DaveYognaut No, but the only way to wipe out CTE is to get rid of contact sport altogether, and I don't want to see that.
Fact is, players CHOOSE to do a sport where this is a big risk. So they accept the consequences.
Don't like it, don't play.
Steve Irwin was awesome 😎
Still is. His legacy is indomitable.
He was a flog and an embarrassment to Australia
The stingray was awesomER.
Seriously? The Noid, the Snickers commercial? The Twin Towers commercial? Are we all children? Are advertisements supposed to have a Time Machine and be able to avoid future events? You’re reaching here, my dudes. Anyone traumatized by these things needs to seek mental help. My goodness.
Right? It’s not like many people even remember the ads. They are not still being played on TV or anything. The funny thing is, no one would ever see these ads if Ms. Mojo hadn’t put them in a video. If they think they are such a problem, maybe this video was a bad idea?
@@emtgirl777 Exactly. Just like racism. The more they talk about it(DEI), the longer it will persist. Videos like this are created by people who watch too much CNN & MSNBC.
Any Jared Subway ad wouldn’t work today.
Watch the South Park episode about Jared from 2002. They predicted what would happen.
Too bad they don't advertise chomos. Jared would've been the poster boy
No shit sherlock
Sorry…what was the issue with the Maria Bomford ads?!
She actually has ocd and bipolar. During the filming the commercials she was having a massive manic episode and it led to a mental breakdown.
@@erinmalone2669 TO be fair, that happens every day when she gets out of bed.
I got one y'all missed, Quiznos stupid hamster commercials.
Those places went out of business where I live.
@@fromthehaven94 I know they did, but the commercials where they had those rodents were terrible.
The Spongmonkeys. They were the reason I even knew of the existence of Quiznos.
@@Akira625same, thanks to Nostalgia Critic featuring them in a commercials special
but they didn't have child porn like the Subway's rat
I miss Steve Irwin!
Why?... did you know him?
Thank God, the stingray didn't. Irwin was a loathsome human.
Rip Steve
I like how a bunch of these were featured in that "Poorly-Aged 90s Commercials" compilation
Brad Pitt for Pringles, Keanu Reeves for Coke & Ben Affleck for Burger King still makes me smile
Clooney for Nespresso? Still get a kick out of it
Didn't Arnold Schwarzenegger also do coke or pepsi ads along with Lonnie Anderson?
@@molly-blue7822 possibly and he screwed around on Maria so…put him on the extended list
@@michellecrocker2485 Yeppers
@@molly-blue7822 diet 7 up commercial
Dishonorable Mention:
* The Crying Indian Ad "Keep America Beautiful" - The ad was made by litter companies to shift the litter blame from them on to us.
what is a "litter company"? the whole "carbon footprint" thing was definitely a campaign by oil companies and other corporations to make us feel responsible for greenhouse emissions when they're the top polluters, but i'm not aware of any "litter companies" doing a whole lot of littering
And the crying Indian in the ad, Iron Eyes Cody, wasn’t even a real Native American. He was of Italian descent.
What's a "litter company"?
@@ingridfong-daley5899 Companies who hypocritically litter their own trash and blames their customers for the problem, telling them to pick up their trash while they do the opposite.
@@marissamay8527 Oh "companies that litter" not "litter companies"--got it. I kept trying to figure out if it's an alternate term for "waste removal"
Rip Steve Irwin, love watching your shows. You were one of the greatest to introduce animals and also handling them. Shame that you had to go
Any nickelodeon promo involving any of Schneider's projects.
any event during June
ESPECIALLY Zoey 101 ads. There's a rumor out there that DAN'S the father of the child she got pregnant with while under aged, which ended the show. I have no idea how much truth there is in that rumor, but until I see the results of a DNA test... I wouldn't put it past him. Dan Schneider was a rotten bastard.
The biggest fail is depending on FedEx to deliver anything on time, ever. They've failed me more than I can tell, and it infuriates me when companies don't give me any other choice to have goods shipped. I mean I'd take ANY other choice.
0:22 - Lance Armstrong + Nike
1:17 - Camel Cigarettes + Doctors
2:23 - Maria Bamford + Target
3:34 - The Noid (Dominos)
4:46 - The Pole Vaulter + AT&T
5:44 - Batman + Snickers
6:44 - James Dean + Driving PSA
7:43 - Debunking Opioid "Myths"
8:48 - Jared Fogle + Subway
10:08 - Steve Irwin + FedEx
Would it be fair to say that Kenneth Lamar Noid was "paraNOID"????
Bro
Well. Still, it was a truly nasty crime that happened.
Ba dum tssss
Making a commercial denying you’re using steroids is exactly the type of thing you would do if you were on steroids.
I don't care, the Batman snickers commercial was and still is hilarious to me.
R.I.P. STEVE IRWIN 🙏🙌
😥as a aussie miss his also R.I.P. STEVE IRWIN
And HOORAY for the stingray. The world is a better place now.
Also to add to the Camel cigarettes, I vividly remember their mascot of an anthro camel being their mascot and his ads were practically everywhere, you couldn't escape him, billboards, magazines, etc. He finally vanished after enough soccer moms complained the mascot was appealing to children.
In truth, I loved the Noid ( mostly because at that time I knew a lot of, and seriously enjoyed "Claymation" )... but I also have to say I never heard about the guy that went nutburgers because of a passing resemblance with his name and the character. As for the Pole vaulter bit.. I never saw the commercial myself.. I think it's a "reach' personally... 5 YEARS afterwards?? come ON!
I loved the Noid too, and also have never heard of this guy that held up a store.
My grandparents had a Noid figure up on the wall in their kitchen. IIRC it was my grandmother who put it there, not my grandfather. It was completely out of place in their home and hilarious.
The noid from dominos
Maria bamford....had to look at imdb & already forgot her
Walkers crisps in the UK (Lays chips in the US) did a "Walkers Wave" campaign asking users to send in selfies. The winners would score tickets to the UEFA Champions League final. So far so good, eh?
Well the internet being what it is, people sent in pictures that were not selfies, and for whatever reason they were not properly screened and one of wrestler-who-should-not-be-named Chris Benoit slipped through and made it onto the promo video.
THe Target Lady Christmas Ads; I looked forward to them. We all know people who go ga-ga over the holidays.
I had long forgotten the Steve Irwin ad. I remember finding it hilarious.
I still think his ads are hilarious. They're a testament to the great sense of humor he had.
Gig Young, in the James Dean PSA, murdered his wife
And then killed himself.
What about Kobe Bryant and the commerical with the helicopter crashes in flames while he is playing basketball
No shot that's a real thing
I’m so glad I never trusted Jared, saw him in Subway commercial at 6, always thought he was weird n suspicious. Till this day I can feel his shadow over a subway store.
😂😂😂😂😂
But same
Think of all the people named Ronald who never took McDonald's workers hostage because they thought the company's advertising character was about them.
I worked at a hospital in the 90s. Ironically enough the worst chain smoker's we had were the Respiratory Therapists.🙄
They probably liked that the menthols "opened the lungs and cleared the sinuses".
One of the worst was the Geico commercial for motorcycle insurance that used a song by The Allman Brothers. They obviously knew nothing of the band's history, having lost 2 of its members in motorcycle wrecks.
Now all we get to watch are a host of mindless Insurance and Big-Pharma prescription commercials. I’ll take the old commercials any day!
Don't forget personal injury lawyers.
You're not kidding! Commercials used to have some character and sort of a story-in-brief to them. My wife and I are both nostalgic for the '80's and back, and she often puts retro commercials on the TV just to play in the background while she does other things. I enjoy them as much as she does because nowadays commercial quality is just garbage.
I like Maria Bamford, but "regretting appearing in a commercial" should not appear on this list. Not even close to on the same level as the other examples on this list.
Considering this video is the only introduction to her acting I've ever seen, I understand her regret.
I think some context needs to be added about the smoking adds. You all threw in that part about the Flintstones promoting cigarettes and I know it’s because everyone thinks of the show as one for kids. However in its original run the show was actually for adults sort of like Family Guy. There are plenty of other examples that could’ve been used that were actually proven in court where cartoons were targeted to kids such as the Camel cartoon character but when the Flintstones became mote of a kids cartoon HB didn’t let them be used for that anymore.
Bamford does deserve to be knbthis list. Just because she regretted the exposure? It was a job she got paid for, created other opportunities. Bot the same as poorly agrd
The character she was playing said she had OCD. In fact, Maria had a form of OCD and bipolar 2. Her hard, crazed working helped lead to a serious mental breakdown.😢 The commercial kind of made fun of OCD and that wasn’t cool.
Number 9: Doctors promote cigarettes.
Number 8: Lady regrets doing Target ads.
Number 7: Deranged guy holds employees hostage because of an ad.
One of these things is not like the other...
R.I.P Steve 🙏😭💯
Hertz Car Rental Company Commercial = OJ Simpson running for White Bronco.
Aged like milk? This is golden!
Also the Lance Armstrong cameo in Dodgeball a True Underdog Story is also ruined.
Yea because of the scandal he caused
I wondered if "Ritalin" medication was another controversial thing and disturbing to take if it's a way to get better or suddenly change your ways, but I could be mistaken.
The cigarette adverts need looking at in context of the time they were aired.
It was, and indeed is, a product that we can all agree can shorten people's life expectancy IF that person was going to live past 70 anyway. Which back in the 1950's and following couple of decades, was probably a bit less likely than it may now be.
Barring of course developing lung cancer. (statistics show roughly a 20% chance of lung cancer in a heavy smoker. Pretty much a 20% increased chance than a non-smoker.)
But again, context. If your life is so crap that dying young would actually be a release rather than a tragedy, then why not smoke a few ciggies on the way?
The life expectancy wasn't really any less in the 50s. However, they didn't know that smoking caused cancer or had any other ill effects until the 70s. It was at that point, that they began doing further studies. By the 80s, they began to put warnings on the product. I became a smoker as a teen in the 80s, not because Joe Camel looked like a cartoon character, but because it was still the "cool" thing to do among many of my peers. Peer pressure was the leading cause of teens smoking, not advertisements. Children paid no attention to that. They were still being raised by parents who smoked in the house (mine never smoked), and were surrounded by other smokers. Plus, they still had easy access to the product via the cigarette machines, and we didn't get carded when buying them 99.99% of the time when buying them. The majority of us actually smoked Marlboros or Newports. Occasionally Camels, if we got tired of the other brands. It was a flavor thing, not a brand thing. Cigarette tobacco does have a distinct flavor. We also didn't smoke because it tasted good. It was purely peer pressure and thinking we were not cool if we didn't do it. We had nothing against the nonsmokers, though.
@@jenx5870 Cigarette companies knew about the ill effects of their products earlier. They just did everything they could to hide or discredit the information to protect their market. When the truth started to come out, the moved their heavy promotion to developing companies where cigarette could still be marketed as cool.
Steve Irwin's death hit us fans hard. Funny thing, though, is that a video of #1 here on YT became an unofficial forum for fans to mourn and to reminisce about him.
4:50 ~ As soon as I saw the title, I *knew* that had to be somewhere on the list
Okay. Only certain people can say "I'm Batman":
Michael Keaton
Adam West
Kevin Conroy
Robert Pattinson
Christian Bale
Peter Weller
And admittedly
Val Kilmer and George Clooney.
Val would have made for a good Batman if Joel Schumacher made his Batman film like Flatliners (which looks more like Batman Begins than Batman Forever).
Frankly, I didn't even know that thing about The Noid, so I never associated it with anything but American Dominoes ads (we never got Noid ads here in Australia) and, it being so far back now, new information for me and Dominoes not being a huge priority in my life... I doubt I'll associate The Noid with the crime every time I see an ad online featuring The Noid
How is I'm Batman disturbing? 😂
yes you missed i find the most shocking ad to ever hit australian tv and was shown any time during the day AIDS 'Grim Reaper' Ad Campaign (1987), this ad is about people with aids and shows adults and kids in a bowling alley as pins getting bowled over by grim reapers its actually terrifying and disturbing to watch
That is horrible!
And it said that it will affect all of us, men, women and children.
I remember when COVID first came, I wondered if it was overstated like AIDS was back in the 80s and would only affect certain groups, and not everyone.
I will forever believe in my heart that Steve Irwin’s final words were “Oh crikey!”
I think they were, "Glub glub!" Wasn't he underwater?
Remember the Virginia Slims commercials directed at women?
I actually thought the funniest reference to the Domino's Noid was in the Simpsons when Marge brought up the long the forgotten mascot in a nerdy kind of way! Haha!
Is there not any chance at all that we can celebrate and show love for the twin towers? Why does everything concerning them have to be so sad?
4:25 We can replace the Noid with Karens, the way they think delivery drivers are trespassing in the neighborhood, even if the neighborhood isn't gated. Even if it is, they have permission from the person who called the pizza store.
Although, maybe it will lead to a less severe situation, like Karens protesting and saying hilariously dumb things.
5:37 That line in this commercial has such a different feel to it, too, especially from this part, 5:40, up to screaming.
The Snickers one is a bit of a stretch.
Speaking of stupid commercials, I remember there was an old ad for cigarettes, it was a black & white ad from the early 60's
It showed two young people dancing at a party and when the music ends the woman says"Let's go out for a breath of FREASH air , and then they both head out to SMOKE a KOOL cigarette,so much for FREASH air
Lance Armstrong wasn't the only 1 doping. Most cyclists did.
Pudding Pops. Bill Cosby. That is all.
RIP Steve Irwin. Not done in by a venomous snake or crocodile but a stingray
That commercial isn’t about 9/11
and which one is that
Yes but it has images that reminds people of 9/11
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4:48
@@babecat2000 well folks say "never forget" so why should people get in trouble for reminding us?
@@babecat2000and that’s exactly why that commercial didn’t age well 😔
Never knew that about the noid
How did you not add any of the Cosby commercials Doug walker even talks about them lol
Rolf Harris did a learn to swim ad, and there's a dark moment after telling an incident from his childhood he looks coldly to camera and says, "But some children aren't so lucky…"
you've missed the three old wives ad with volkswagen and diesel claiming diesel is clean - and than the scandal hit
The football add where the player thiinks he is Batman has not dated. The joke is still funny. People need to get a sense of humour.
Thinking of Jared "eating fresh" yea just nope.
Wow, these guys are really reaching for controversy. I’d never even heard of the Noid issue before.
Honorable Mentions:
*Various Bill Cosby Ads
-If you know, you know.
Sarah Ferguson did promos for Weight Watchers. One mailer my mom got was her saying that losing weight was harder than evading the paparazzi. (She was princess Di's good friend).
It's amazing to see how WatchMojo has evolved over the years! From chasing views to creating quality, engaging content, you guys have come a long way. This list was both fascinating and disturbing - it's crazy how our perspectives change over time. Keep up the good work, WatchMojo!
Maybe not worthy of the list, but an old 80s commercial for Cabbage Patch Kids that I can't seem to find on RUclips. An 8 or 9 year old girl announces she has adopted a child, and then says "Well, I wanted to have my family when I was still young." and the surrounding 15 or 20 adults just smile and laugh. Way to reduce the rate of teen pregnancies.
My father in law died from taking NSAIDS. His doctor had told him to take an opioid pain reliever but he was afraid of them. He should’ve listened to his doctor. Over the counter does not mean safe.
I'm sorry that happened to him, and I'm sorry your family had to endure that. I'll ask as respectfully curious: what effect did the NSAIDS cause? Though I'm not in the "danger" group of 65 and older, I do take them for inflammation issues, and I always wonder about what could happen.
@@k.b.tidwell I take them as well. But it’s important to recognize the danger of over-use.
His kidneys failed. He had been told not to take them because his kidney numbers were starting to go up. But he was afraid to take anything else.
After his kidneys failed I guess he figured, oh well guess I can take them now. He ended up in the ER with a gastric bleed. They did emergency surgery and I was there when the surgeon saw him after recovery. He told my FIL, “do not take any over the counter pain medications”. My FIL said, “ what am I supposed to take for my pain??” He replied, “something that won’t kill you!”
Even so he never made it home after that.
My gran and I were discussing old cigarette ads recently. I might not’ve said the name camels specifically (but I think I did). Anyhow, I told her about the “More Doctors Smoke Camels than any Other Cigarette” ad thing. I said, “Shameful, isn’t it?”
"Noid commercials are disturbing because (checks notes) someone once held up a Dominos"
This is perhaps the worst WatchMojo I've ever seen.
also i could see the guy being bothered that the tagline gave people an opportunity to bully him as an unfortunate coincidence, but thinking they were targeting him specifically seems like unmedicated schizophrenia.
@@dietotaku But wasn't that only on Robot Chicken? How big is their viewership?
And your comment is perhaps the worst comment that I've ever seen.
@@dietotaku He did suffer from paranoid schizophrenia. Besides even if he was medicated it still is possible to show symptoms so I don't it really matter if it is medicated or not. Anyways he was arrested but was didn't face charges due to insanity. Sadly, he ended up taking his own life which was the final nail in the coffin for The Noid. The other nail was that Dominos ended up stopping the 30 minutes or less policy due to drivers getting into accidents with some of them dying. Guru Larry did a Fact Hunt episode that talked about mascots that had to be dropped.
Yes the Noid is just plain annoying, he does not even speak proper sentences just makes stupid, annoying noises.
The Radioshack commercial with Weird Al Yankovic singing "Toyland" is hard to watch, considering how bad they had fallen and were about to go out of business. 😢
As Dr. Jones said to Sallah:
"No Camel!!"
Maria Bamford is an american treasure.
Agreed. I always loved her standup act. I've wondered what happened to her.
Amen. She still performs, although less, and Lady Dynamite, on Netflix, is fantastic. Mitch Horowitz is a producer and it’s irreverent and quirky.
She looks like a crazy chick I dated.